[Highlight] Wemby snatches the ball a foot and a half above the hoop for a block that won’t count
The funnier part of this clip is SGA hitting Chet
If there’s a way for his face to wind up getting hit, Chet’s gonna find it
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His face is just a magnet for hitting
him and dwight powell
And Darius Garland, who spent multiple months a couple seasons ago with his jaw wired shut after getting hit in the face.
The magnetic field of his face is the only thing holding his beard on. People think he shaves that sideburn gap on purpose, but even Chet isn’t that stupid. His face magnet just isn’t quite strong enough to pull his beard all the way up.
The Dwight Powell special.
Yea I’m surprised shai didnt get the and 1 for that
Imagine they review it and give Castle a flagrant for causing SGA to make contact with Chet’s face
The Art of the Flop
To to be fair he took a solid nose bleed this game
I thought that’s what it was too but it looks like keldon johnson hit him. apparently hard enough to send him to the shadow realm the way he reacted
This is how guys in the 60s viewed Wilt
This has to be it. Wemby just has to give us a 110+ game(he could do it against LAL the way our D has been)
At some point Wemby will face a team that has every player over 6’10 injured and it will just be an alley oop fest the entire game.
Looking forward when they face the Raptors
If only the Rockets still ran that no center lineup from the year they had Harden and Russ
Hey now…oh wait ya you right.
Your line was “Scottie Barnes owns your poverty franchise” /s
The game will also need to be competitive. Too much of a massacre then he sits the 4th Quarter or something.
OT would also help
Just like the MegaBowl
He’s just going to do layups in the post.
Wilt on stilts with a step back lmao
Just think if he puts on a little more muscle. He will legit be unstoppable.
He has put on alot of muscle. Watch his post game interviews from his rookie season and this season. He looks jacked compared to previous years lol it’s harder to tell from the normal camera view during the game
That’s true. I forget he’s so stretched out but you are right he hit the weights hard especially after last year.
he’s so stretched out
Come again?
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Maybe wilt wasn’t just bs
Abduction
Who coined that again?
I remember that lol
We all claim it as one.
Abductions are possessed blocks.
Nopes are vacated drives in the paint due to Wemby’s presence.
Rudy’s version of this is called the “never mind.”
Via adduction
Alien with the abduction
even though i just watched this in real time it still looks fake
I was sitting right there and it didn’t look real
I was playing in the game and couldn’t believe it
I’m wemby and I was also in disbelief
I’m the ball and I was abducted by an alien
This the shit you do on NBA street with Wilt
Sometimes you just know you’re watching one of the absolute greatest players of all time. This dude is unreal.
Greatest talents. But he’s gotta stay healthy. Prime Walton and Embiid looked like top 10 players when healthy in their primes as well. Wemby has the highest ceiling of maybe any player ever but he’s gotta be able to stay healthy.
He’s probably got too many injury issues that will shorten his career or playing time. He’s great when he plays, but modern players that are 7’7” or however tall he really is are just going to have so many problems in their joints and feet and blood vessels and get injured way faster than normal.
Its more surprising that Holmgren wasn’t called for a foul so SGA can get extra freethrows.
This is a 2k block holy shit he robbed his lunch
those 2k snatch blocks are so funny lol. Completely unrealistic.
“Complete unrealistic”
Well…..might not be so anymore 😂
6 minutes left, no blocks yet, and already past his minutes restriction. He wants to keep that streak alive!
Did he keep the streak?
Nope, no blocks this game. OKC barely attacked the rim when he was on!
Which he’ll happily take over a meaningless streak, I’m sure
What the hell is even that
Daddy, chill.
I was hoping somebody would deliver and you didn’t disappoint lol
How does this not count SGA scored free throws off it and it would have counted and 1 had Wemby not blocked it
It doesn’t count because a shooter can not be credited with a missed field goal if they are fouled on the attempt.
And to get credit for a blocked shot it has to be a missed field goal by the shooter.
Shooters can make a shot in the process of getting fouled, but statistically if they miss/get blocked it doesn’t count.
If college football can negate rushing yards for QB sacks on called passing plays, I’m sure they can finagle something like this in basketball. Not apples to apples, but closest thing I could think of is this.
I mean, them’s the rules we just follow them. Not up to us lol
True. I was just spit ballin tbh. We see how NBA has flagrants treated just as cards in soccer. You can foul in soccer without a card just as you regular fouls in basketball.
“Different sports have different rules, more news at 11”
Just a technicality in how they record stats. It should’ve counted imo but its whatever, Spurs won thats what matters to me
straight nasty
So if a someone is going for a bank shot does the apex goaltend rule not apply?
If it’s still going up it doesn’t matter, it’s a block
Unless it hits glass first, but thats more for layups than bank shots
He got his block. The streak continues even in limited minutes
Doesn’t count but it is actually still influential because it avoids the potential and 1
I think if the shot would have counted as a continuation, and a goaltending could have made it an and-1, then the block should count too
Very reasonable….just realized this was not r/nbacirclejerk
In theory the defender benefits from the shooter being fouled so it’s not trivial to just say that the block is impactful as a rule even though in this case it clearly was.
Never realised how annoying hartenstein is.
Shai so busy frailing that he hit his own teammate
The ball was still moving upward
I barely watched the block I just watched Shai’s off arm with the classic Harden armbar
Chet has been hit in the face softer than that and crumpled to the floor
Those jerseys are great.
Dwight Howard would have swatted that thing into the 8th row. I hated when he would do that. Wemby is a smart dude
did Chet flop or SGA really hit him ? I can’t see well.
I think SGA got him, you can see his arm fling back after the impact but the angle is super weird
Chet is like a fetus in the presence of that man.
that’s not a block. That’s a ABDUCTION!
That was a block bro wtf
lol the first angle looked like Wemby hit Chet. The second angle wasn’t even close.
This is exactly how the cpu jumps when I try to alley in 2k
How is that not a block?
F ing pro SGA bias is sickening.
Did SGA get the foul?
Hartenstein using all his energy to complain to the ref rather than taking a good stance to receive that ball for an easy finish.. he seemed like a nice guy in Knicks but now he is riding the annoyance bandwagon in thunder.
God it must be nice being a Thunder fan
Perspective is absolutely off and he’s not a foot and a half above the rim lol.
God I hate watching SGA play
The amount of times opposing teams cry for a goaltending when it clearly isn’t one……. Really ain’t never seen something like wemby. The shit he does seems illegal
Damn blocking and rebounding in one instance a floater is just unreal
Why won’t this count as a block though? Did Shai get free throws off Chet’s face fouling him like that?
This is a highlight to show off when he retires just to remind everyone what a spectacle it has been having him in San Antonio
Chet is so weak and pathetic, probably wouldn’t even be drafted in the 90s
New statistic invented. The YOINK.
We’re in for years of players complaining to the refs like Hartenstein here that Wemby goaltended when he didn’t.
If you block a shot while that person got fouled, you stopped an and-1. I think this and others like it should count as a block.
Typical SGA flopping and hitting Chet.
That’s a clean block. Sick of SGA the flopper. He probably tried to foul bait and hit Chet instead. Typical.
Wemby: boys, boys…
The first lob block in nba history
Would the shot have counted if it went in? If so, it should be a block if there’s continuation. (imo)
Wait this is a goaltend?!
Literally right at the peak of the ball’s ascension and fall. Idk how goaltends are called so I won’t argue it.
Also think shai got a foul hence the title saying no block.
But his basket would have counted so the block should too. One of those odd rules that need looked at.
If they count blocks on this then they’d need to count FG attempts on foul shots too, which would skew stat’s so much
I don’t see why they would need to change that part.
Ball was still going up or at its peak. It has to come down, over the rim, or hit the backboard for it to be a goaltend.
Goaltend